{"id":3745,"date":"2009-11-16T15:55:31","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T20:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3745"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:51:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:51:10","slug":"drug-prices-up-before-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/11\/16\/drug-prices-up-before-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug prices up before reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3746\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/11\/healthcare-reform.jpg\" alt=\"healthcare reform\" width=\"84\" height=\"126\" \/>While drug makers promise to back healthcare reform by cutting drug costs after legislation passes, the industry has been <a title=\"raising\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/16\/business\/16drugprices.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">raising<\/a>\u00a0 drug prices at a 9-percent clip.\u00a0 Law Professor <a title=\"Kevin Outterson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/outterson_k.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Outterson<\/a>, an authority on pharmaceutical law and marketing, says this means big pharma will make more money from health reform.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This is apparently the price for PhRMA\u2019s support of broader health reform.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Kevin Outterson, 617-353-3103, <a href=\"mailto:mko@bu.edu\">mko@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While drug makers promise to back healthcare reform by cutting drug costs after legislation passes, the industry has been raising\u00a0 drug prices at a 9-percent clip.\u00a0 Law Professor Kevin Outterson, an authority on pharmaceutical law and marketing, says this means big pharma will make more money from health reform. &#8220;This is apparently the price for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3745"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8294,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745\/revisions\/8294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}